There will be blood in their territorial waters before long.
Posted on 03/01/2019 7:23:15 AM PST by BadLands59
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) threatened her moderate colleagues during a Thursday Democratic caucus meeting, telling the lawmakers she plans to provide progressive activists searching for primary targets with a list of Democrats who work across the aisle.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi began the meeting by chastising the two dozen moderates who voted on Tuesday in favor of a Republican amendment to a gun control bill that requires gun retailers to report illegal immigrants who attempt to buy a gun.
“We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision,” Pelosi said, two people who were present told the Washington Post.
Ocasio-Cortez, who routinely wields her massive social media following to pressure her establishment colleagues into supporting her agenda, sought to add force to Pelosi’s call for unity by threatening to expose to the ire of progressive activists any Democrats willing to compromise with Republicans.
Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, told the Post that any Democrats who cooperate with Republicans “are putting themselves on a list.”
“She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them,” Trent said, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The rift between the establishment and the younger, more progressive wing of the party was brought into sharp relief this week moments before the House passed legislation that would require a federal criminal background check for all gun purchases, including private transactions. While the bill’s passage represented a significant victory for the Democratic majority, the inclusion of a provision that will facilitate deportations at the hands of ICE agents incensed progressives, many of whom have called for the agency to be abolished.
[[[Speaker Nancy Pelosi began the meeting by chastising the two dozen moderates who voted on Tuesday in favor of a Republican amendment to a gun control bill that requires gun retailers to report illegal immigrants who attempt to buy a gun.]]]
You can’t make this stuff up.
And they will take retribution to those who do not fall in line.
The thin-skinned nitwit has no idea what Pelosi and the Old Guard can do to her.
Hmm, now where have I heard that before?
Like two alley cats with their tails tied together...
So, we can’t vote our conscience?
Yeah, Mitch. The Senate is a joke. The democrats vote en bloc. If they get into power they will do the nuclear option on you, and have all bills passed by majority vote.
GET SMART YOU SPINELESS, ASS, AND DO THE SAME NOW.
Nancy loosing control....
There will be blood in their territorial waters before long.
“She’s becoming a real thorn in Nancy’s side, isn’t she? This take-down, before it’s all over, will be fun to watch.”
Perhaps there will be no take down. The people and organizations behind Cortez may be so powerful even Nancy has to bow to the future leadership of the party.
Why has no one investigated and publicized the real puppeteers financing and controlling Cortez? Doesn’t the GOP do opposition research? Cortez is not a phenomenon, she is the creation and tool of powerful forces. It would seem if you are the opposition party it would be to your advantage to expose the puppeteer. Unless of course your leash handler is in alliance with Cortez’s handler.
So tney dont want law abiding citizens to have guns but illegal immigrants is fine. Hypocrisy thy name is Democrat
They’re going to do something awful to her and run her out of DC. It’s cool that it will be white liberal Democrats that torpedo her, not Republicans.
Well, the DemocRATS had a very tough choice to make...
If this gal were really fat and ugly. . .no one would print, listen, or read anything she has to say. . .that’s the reality of it all.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez....god I love her......keep talking baby!!!
The airhead has been watching too much "Game of Thrones" and must think she is Arya Stark -
“Why has no one investigated and publicized the real puppeteers financing and controlling Cortez? Doesn’t the GOP do opposition research? Cortez is not a phenomenon, she is the creation and tool of powerful forces. It would seem if you are the opposition party it would be to your advantage to expose the puppeteer. Unless of course your leash handler is in alliance with Cortez’s handler.”
That’s one of my biggest questions, as well. Not only Cortez, but others as well. It’s beyond puzzling to me why we aren’t on them like flies on shi*.
Most likely they’re just happy with their desk jobs, playing their part and reading the script.
The script says they run in place when they have the ball, and otherwise play Washington Generals to the Democrats’ Harlem Globetrotters.
What moderate Dems?
There’s no such thing.
This AOC is a delusional dingbat. The far-left Justice Democrats group that propelled her into office endorsed 79 Democrat candidates during the primary season in 2018.
Only 26 of those 79 candidates won their Democrat primaries, and only SEVEN of the 26 who won the primaries went on to win in the general election.
7 winning candidates out of 79 endorsements -- especially in a year when historical midterm trends favored Democrats heavily across the board -- is a perfect illustration of just how weak this group’s influence is.
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